Sentence examples for permitted as it from inspiring English sources

In the Strathmore's case, the renovator's trick of stripping back a building's plasterwork to expose its brick walls is not permitted, as it would not be in keeping with the structure's historic nature.

Investigators have said the Wimbledon-bound tram was travelling at a "significantly higher speed than is permitted" as it entered a tight bend before flipping on to its side and sliding.

Smoking is permitted, as it typically is in Italy.

The Football Association has taken the unprecedented step of making 6,000 tickets available for neutral spectators in a section of Wembley where no club colours will be permitted, as it desperately attempts to fill the national stadium.

Founded in 1851 on a series of waterside hills then clad with magnificent Douglas firs, it always had those noble vistas of the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, when weather permitted (as it often didn't and doesn't, especially before the fog lifts at noon).

He was willing to go to the necessary extent in securing to the owners this species of property, permitted as it was by the Constitution; but the bill contained no sufficient guard to the safety of those colored people who resided in the States where slavery was known only by name.

In South Africa, it is permitted as long as it is not "unfair discrimination". In India, it is permitted to correct historical discrimination.

Civic activism was permitted — as long as it did not stir undesired sentiments among the broader public.

Under the new policy, any religious headgear will be permitted as long as it is blue, the color of the authority's logo, said Adam Lisberg, the authority's chief spokesman.

Visitors should also understand that, like Adirondack State Park in upstate New York, Algonquin is a multiuse area, a euphemism that seems to mean that a certain amount of logging is permitted, as long as it's out of sight.

Despite a review of their status by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs recently, ownership and trade in them is still permitted as long as it is solely "for historical and collecting purposes".